Beth Severy-Hoven specializes in Roman history and the history of women in the
ancient Mediterranean. She has published a book on the development of Rome's first
imperial family, Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire (Routledge
2003). Her more recent work involves the wall painting in a house in Pompeii, and the
roles of women in different dynasties of the Roman empire. 

Severy-Hoven has been teaching at Macalester since 1998. 

EDUCATION: A.B., Bryn Mawr College M.St., Oxford University, England M.A., Ph.D.,
University of California, Berkeley

Journal Articles

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Gender, Sex, and the Domestication of the Empire in Art of the Augustan Age (with Teresa Ramsby), Arethusa (2007)
 

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Reshaping Rome: Space, Time and Memory in the Augustan Transformation [Editor of Special Issue; Introduction], Arethusa (2007)
 

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Review of: Children in the Visual Arts of Imperial Rome, by Jeannine Diddle Uzzi, The Classical Journal (2007)
 

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Review of: Princes and Political Cultures. The New Tiberian Senatorial Decrees, by Greg Rowe, Phoenix (2004)
 

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PBS's Roman Empire: Once Again, History as Imperial Biography, The Chronical Review: The Chronical of Higher Education (2001)
 

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Books

Representing Agrippina: Constructions of Female Power in the Early Roman Empire [Co-editor of the book by Judith Ginsburg] (with Judith Ginsburg) (2006)
 

Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire (2003)